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Monotonicity-preserving bootstrapped kriging metamodels for expensive simulations

Kleijnen,Jack P.C.
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van Beers,W.C.M.
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Kriging metamodels (also called Gaussian process or spatial correlation models) approximate the Input/Output functions implied by the underlying simulation models. Such metamodels serve sensitivity analysis, especially for computationally expensive simulations. In practice, simulation analysts often know that this Input/Output function is monotonic. To obtain a Kriging metamodel that preserves this characteristic, this article uses distribution-free bootstrapping assuming each input combination is simulated several times to obtain more reliable averaged outputs. Nevertheless, these averages still show sampling variation, so the Kriging metamodel does not need to be an exact interpolator; bootstrapping gives a noninterpolating Kriging metamodel. Bootstrapping may use standard Kriging software. The method is illustrated through the popular M/M/1 model with either the mean or the 90% quantile as output; these outputs are monotonic functions of the traffic rate. The empirical results demonstrate that monotonicity-preserving bootstrapped Kriging gives higher probability of covering the true outputs, without lengthening the confidence interval.
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2013
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Kleijnen, J P C & van Beers, W C M 2013, 'Monotonicity-preserving bootstrapped kriging metamodels for expensive simulations', Journal of the Operational Research Society, vol. 64, no. 5, pp. 708-717. < http://www.palgrave-journals.com/jors/journal/v64/n5/abs/jors2011148a.html >
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